Sad News…For Now!

Hi my lovelies!!!

It’s with a sad and heavy heart that I announce that today is my last day as blogger for Hot Mama Daily.    Yes, I know, I know.. this comes as a shock to most of you, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news…

As I’m sure all my frequent readers have noticed, since the summer, my posting has been very, very sporatic.  This is because I returned to a full-time job a few months ago (boo-hoo!) and have been trying to keep up blogging, work-life, family-life, and extra-curricular-life (if that makes any sense! LOL!) and my decision to continue blogging on HMD is something I’ve been struggling with for weeks now…To blog?  Or not to blog?

So… with that said, I am hanging up my blogging hat here at Hot Mama Daily.  However, the good news is that b5media will keep Hot Mama Daily as a blog on the Beauty & Style Channel and will have another writer or 2 (who have not been announced yet) to take over writing duties starting tomorrow, October 1st 2008.

Thanks to b5media–who have been absolutely fantastic to me during my year and a half as HMD’s blogger (and have left the door open for me to come back whenever I want, which I love them for!  Thanks Kori!)

Thanks to Christina Jones for taking a chance on me, a new mommy who had very little blogging experience, and for allowing me to have a voice and be a part of thee best Channel on b5media!  Miss you much CJ!

Thanks to Deborah Ng, (who I consider to be my blogging mentor of-sorts–but she doesn’t know it–LOL!) and who allowed me to pester her time and time again with a million+5 questions as a blogging noob even before I joined b5media.  Thanks so much for your patience and kindness to me (a complete stranger at the time!) when I had no clue of what I was doing! Ha!

To all my lovely fellow b5media Beauty & Style Channel bloggers (Dexie - muah!),  you girls and guys ROCK!!!  I’m so proud to have been a part of such a wonderful team.  Keep up the great work!

And last but absolutely, definitely, not least, YOU, the reader!  Thank YOU!!!!   Whether you found this blog via a Google search by accident (yes, even you Rihanna and Halle Berry fanatics), whether it was from a friend, or whether you know me personally and just wanted to support another one of Pascalle’s crazy “ventures” (ha!), I thank you and appreciate you for reading, for checking back occasionally, for leaving a comment, and for showing love & support.

I’ve met so, so many great people and new friends from writing this blog, it’s been nothing but wonderful–so wonderful that I can’t even begin to express my gratitude by typing alone.

My goal when I first approached b5media with the Hot Mama Daily ‘concept’, was to write a blog for the new mother, and to offer advice on how a new mother can stay looking, well, hot and fashionable (Hot Mama, hello?), even after becoming a new mother.  I was tired of seeing the same maternity outfits, and even the boring post-partum fashion all over the place.  It always surprised me how people kind of expected me to become ’soccer-mom’-like and live in Mom-jeans/attire after giving birth to my son (not dissing the soccer moms, but you get my drift, right?)

With Hot Mama Daily, I wanted to write something light and fun, in my own voice and personality, where I could pass along tips and advice on what I thought was cute and ’stylish’ for expecting moms, brand new moms, and even veteran moms.  I even tried to make you guys laugh a bit along the way.  The idea was to write a beauty & style blog that was non-intimidating.   Most importantly, I wanted to show women how to re-create great fashionble looks for LESS and without looking like a fashion victim.

As it turned out, I was writing for the everyday woman–you and me, mother or not, young and young-at-heart *wink*.  The response was phenomenal!  In less than a year Hot Mama Daily grew in leaps and bounds and that was GREAT to see.  I’m a mushy and sentimental chick therefore the growth in readership and positive response my heart tremendously

In closing (if I could ever finish this thing–lol!), I want to say a heartfelt thanks to every last one of you.  And, I want to let you all know this isn’t the end of my blog experience.  You WILL see me around blogging again one of these days.  Count on it.

Feel free to e-mail me every once in a while to check in, or just to say hi, or… whatever!  pascalle7 (at) gmail (dot) com

Since I don’t believe in goodbyes I won’t say goodbye.  I’ll just say…”later…for now!”